City celebrates plans to build 8 indoor tennis courts

8:45 PM,
Oct. 28, 2013

Officials from Murfreesboro and Middle Tennessee State University stick shovels in a pile of dirt for a ground-breaking ceremony to celebrate the city constructing eight indoor tennis courts to go with the 24 outdoor courts at Old Fort Park. The $3.7 million project is expected to be done with a target date of Sept. 1, 2014.

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Local tennis players such as Frank Fly and the family and friends of the late Carolyn Reeves celebrated Monday's news that the city will construct eight indoor courts.

"Now is the time and place for this," Fly said after a ground-breaking ceremony where the city will construct the indoor courts by 16 of the 24 outdoor courts at Old Fort Park. "That's why everybody came together."

The indoor courts will serve residents, the city's Middle Tennessee State University teams and tournament tourists at Old Fort Park by a target date of Sept. 1, 2014. ...